The Killing (1956)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:24
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.2/10
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Sterling Hayden stars in Stanley Kubrick's crime noir classic, THE KILLING, based on crime Lionel White's novel CLEAN BREAK. Hayden plays Johnny Clay, an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from... [More]
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Elisha Cook, Timothy Carey, Coleen Gray
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Reviews for The Killing
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Kubrick made grander and greater films, but this is among his most dramatic. Full Review |
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Even though he was just staring out, Kubrick instantly mastered the crime genre. A stunning film. Full Review |
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[The film] at first tends to be somewhat confusing, soon settles into a tense and suspenseful vein which carries through to an unexpected and ironic windup. Full Review |
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Arguably Stanley Kubrick's most perfectly conceived and executed film. Full Review |
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Stanley Kubrick's masterful manipulation of chronology brings an excruciating sense of doom to The Killing, a classical noir about a carefully threaded heist unraveled by the scheming of a fiendish femme. Full Review |
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Characteristically Kubrick in both its mechanistic coldness and its vision of human endeavour undone by greed and deceit, this noir-ish heist movie is nevertheless far more satisfying than most of his later work. Full Review |
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Stanley Kubrick's third film established him as a full-fledged filmmaker and a potential master. Full Review |
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Com uma estrutura narrativa avançada para sua época, este longa é mais uma prova (desnecessária, claro) de que Kubrick sempre foi um Mestre em sua arte.
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Hardboiled early Kubrick. Full Review |
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Strongly recommended for any film noir fan -- it's full of double-crosses and surprises, loaded with honest crooks, weak men, one wicked woman and some great two-fisted dialogue. Full Review |
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